LG Focus

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Local Government FOCUS is a free, independent newspaper that highlights the key issues facing Local Government and promotes best practice among Councils across Australia. FOCUS aims to help Councils stretch their dollars further by sharing successes and good ideas not only within a region,Territory or State but across the Nation. Source

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The investigation into Melbourne’s former lord mayor, Robert Doyle’s behaviour has found that the council was not a safe workplace for the two councillors involved. A summary report of the independent investigation into charges brought against Mr Doyle was handed to councillors at a special meeting yesterday.

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April 2018 is going to be an exciting month for the geospatial industry as Asia-Pacific’s most premier conferences; GeoSmart Asia and Locate are joining hands to come together in Adelaide, Australia, from April 9-11, 2018. Since their inception, both GeoSmart Asia and Locate, have been initiating dialogues and discussions for promotion of geospatial technologies across the region. This collaborative event will deliver a far-reaching, dynamic, and powerful experience for its attendees.

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Cairns Regional Council is developing a website to map arts and cultural facilities and features. The project is a bid to gain recognition as the Arts and Culture Capital of Northern Australia. Mayor Bob Manning said the website would act as an online tool to geographically map and promote the region’s cultural assets.

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City of Darwin Libraries have launched a digital literacy program for seniors. The 10-week Be Connected program teaches seniors how to use a digital device, be safe online, send emails, use social media, shop online and connect with family. Leading the way in the first session were the Karama Library Knit ‘n’ Knatter social group who traded their knitting needles for iPads during the hour long group session.

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Southern Grampians Shire Council, Victoria, has given the go ahead for Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) readers to be installed at the Hamilton Regional Livestock Exchange. The Mayor and CEO awarded the works under delegation due to the limited time for procurement of the infrastructure to meet the legislated implementation date of 31 March.

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City of Greater Geraldton has embraced its non-English speaking community and visitors providing access to interpreters at numerous local public amenities. People who speak languages other than English can now access services from the City with greater convenience, thanks to the introduction of translating and interpreting facilities.

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Coffs Harbour City Council, New South Wales is introducing a novel way for residents to learn about getting connected while doing it. No, ‘iPads and Biscuits’ is not the latest boy band; it’s a new, free monthly get-together at the Harry Bailey Memorial Library for people wanting to get the most out of their iPad.

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Broome Public Library has become Western Australia’s latest library service to achieve accreditation through the Alannah & Madeline Foundation’s e-Smart Libraries framework. E-Smart Libraries, delivered in partnership with the Telstra Foundation, helps libraries to incorporate digital literacy and improve cybersafety while offering patrons ways to deal with cyberbullying.

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Cardinia Shire Council was excited to welcome eCloud Business Services (eCloud) to the Cardinia Civic Centre, in the Victorian town of Officer, to establish the Cardinia Digitisation Centre. Over the past 12 months Council has been working with eCloud to automate all its incoming correspondence, including processing data, records, correspondence, invoices and information.

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City of West Torrens, South Australia is delivering information to local residents via an interactive portal on Council’s website. West Maps - public is the name of the community facing geographic information system (GIS) public portal. Manager information Systems, City of West Torrens, Chris James said, “Rather than provide static maps, West Maps - public is a GIS tool that people use to discover information.

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AND

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OR

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multiple terms to appear in results. (This is the default behavior of our search when no operators
are used). For example, results will contain either cake or cookie by searching cake OR cookie or cake,cookie

NOT

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example, searching Disney will yield results about the Walt Disney Company as well as Walt Disney
World Resort. To exclude mentions of Disney World, search for Disney -World or Disney
NOT World.

Phrases

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Exact case matching or punctuation

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Combining operators

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Asterisk

An asterisk can be used to search for any variation of a root word truncated by the asterisk. For example, searching for admin* will return results for administrator, administration, administer, administered, etc.

Near

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